Learning from the Early Tourneys

FOX Sports has a nice little breakdown of the highlights from the early season tournaments, which are now over. Some of the best teams in the nation played in tournaments ranging from the Jimmy V Classic to the Alaska Shootout, and there was a lot to gleams from the action. Thankfully, there’s a Cliff’s Notes version available.

Fox gives fans the following things: A couple of legitimate national title contenders who surfaced, a couple of probable Final Four participants, some surprisingly good teams, and some clunkers who have not lived up to potential. Check it out to see if your team made the list… but if it hasn’t been in the Top 25 yet it probably isn’t included in the discussion.

It was not that hard to predict that the UCLA Bruins would be slightly less dominating than they were last season. They did lose pretty much everyone besides Darren Collison, so how did the AP expect them to be just about as good as North Carolina (based on their preseason ranking) when UNC brought everybody back?

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